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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I suspect there will not be as many open seats at Ashlawn as you all think. The north Arlington parents will kick and scream that their schools should remain UNDER capacity to accommodate future growth. This will ensure that few kids in south Arlington go to Ashlawn.

Yep. I do not buy the 300-400 extra kids at Ashlawn once reed is up. Not. One. Bit.[/quote]

But isn't the bruhaha over Nottingham?  How empty it will be and therefore a candidate for an option school?  So, shuffle people upward a bit, making more capacity available at the more central schools like Ashlawn.  People just need to start dealing with less than ideal and not getting everything their way all the time.  So frickin' what that you have to go to a school that isn't the closest to your house.  When schools are so close together and there's population density, that's what happens.  We live about 4 blocks from one elementary school; but we bus to our assigned school.  We've survived.  And in the NW, it isn't like you're talking about two schools that are significantly difference in demographics or academics like the Henry people fearing a change to Randolph or Drew.  It's just not such a big deal.

Unless they actually decide to bring Reed back to budget by reducing the # of seats, that school will be built to 750 (or is it 725?) If the far north really does see a population/enrollment boom to put Nottingham back over capacity, then APS is just going to have to consider an addition.  Less cost-effective or not, these schools need to be bigger and it's still less expensive total $ wise than building a whole new building.  Let's face it - our schools are poorly placed geographically, pushed to the edges of the County's borders.  People just have to get over themselves and APS needs to make it work.
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